“Quentyn Martell almost laughed aloud. The gods are mad.”
“...I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a second time, and checked my laughter suddenly, for I was afraid I was going mad.”
“almost exquisite, the slight madness”
“Ser Arys was pleasant company abed, but wit and he were strangers. (Arianne Martell)”
“Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans." Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25”
“He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.”